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48 refusal by declining ever to act distinctively as if it were so, which can only mean acting on certain critical occasions as if it were not so, or in an unmoral and irreligious way. There are, you see, inevitable occasions in life when inaction is a kind of action and must count as action, and when not to be for is to be practically against. And in all such cases strict and consistent neutrality is an unattainable thing.

And after all, isn’t this duty of neutrality where only our inner interests would lead us to believe, the most ridiculous of commands? Isn’t it sheer dogmatic folly to say that our inner interests can have no real connection with the forces that the hidden world may contain? In other cases divinations based on inner interests have proved prophetic enough. Take Science herself! Without an imperious inner